When you’re backed into a corner, you lash out wildly. It’s animal instinct, but it’s also a tactic that filters into the world of business every now and then. Case in point? Dell Australia’s managing director has just taken a strange swipe at the iPad. An odd move, given what Dell itself has in store… Read more
RIM seems like it’s spinning out of control. Having posted terrible losses last night, the internet has been awash with rumours that the company is going to cease making BlackBerry devices for consumers in favour of a renewed focus its business-y strengths. Now that appears not to be true, but one obvious question remains: Would you ever dip your toes in the BlackBerry waters again? Read more
Back in 1997, when HTC was a design and manufacturing outfit, it launched what was then a unique product: a PDA. Less than two years later, with the company requiring a large injection of cash, it was clear the product was ahead of its time. As co-founder Cher Wang (daughter of the second richest man in Taiwan) later observed: ‘The market just wasn’t ready for a PDA phone that behaved like a minicomputer’.
Yet just last week, HTC announced some extraordinary news. Record profits for the first three months of the year had hit £313m, triple that of the same period last year – and in terms of market value, it had overtaken Nokia. It seems HTC hasn’t just captured your imagination – it’s captured your wallet, too.
Read on to reveal the secrets behind its success!
This week our sister site BizGene.com has lifted the lid on how UK cyber crime leads to small and big businesses losing their ideas and content to online thieves.
They’ve also produced guides on how to make your eBay shop better, get the fame your business needs on LinkedIn and revealed what impact reviews on retail sites have on day to day business trading.
If you’re a small or big business, it’s essential reading, minus all that business jargon. They’ll never say ‘blue sky mechanics’, ‘out of the box mentality’ or ‘holistic road-mapping procedure’.
Apple has been quietly snaffling up RIM employees which is bad news for the Blackberry barons. Apple has taken five members of the RIM enterprise team over the past few months which might not sound interesting but is actually quite strategically interesting. Apple claims 80% of Fortune 500 companies are trialling the iPhone and iOS 4.2 is clearly pushing the iPad into business tech territory…
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Talk has been circulating that Nokia are looking for a new CEO, with the WSJ at its root. Rumour has it that Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is on his way out, and Nokia are scouting around for a new CEO. Reasons given in the WSJ are that Nokia has “struggled to find traction for the company in the market for high-end smartphones”
Twitter’s plan to actually start making money rest heavily on making it better for businesses. It’s just started beta testing its first feature geared squarely at businesses – Contributors.
